Switchblade Comb

Written and directed by: David Mackenzie (Young Adam)

Starring: Jaime Bell (Billy Elliot), Claire Forlani (Mallrats), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting)

The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe is a weird teenager that misses his mother, who committed suicide, drowning in a lake nearby their house in Edinburgh after an overdose of sleeping pills. Hallam spends his spare time peeping at the locals and blames his stepmother Verity Foe, accusing her of killing his mother. After a discussion with his father Julius Foe, Hallam sneaks out from his house and travels to Edinburgh, where he sees Kate Breck and becomes obsessed with her because of her resemblance to his mother. Kate hires Hallam to work in the kitchen of the hotel where she works and they have a strange romance, while Hallam reaches his maturity the hardest way.

Hipster alert. Cute drawings and music by Domino Record’s Orange Juice “Blue Boy” and U.N.P.O.C. “Here on My Own” featured in the trailer. This looks like a cool film and I’m glad it’s been moved from the Edina Cinema to the Uptown Theatre. Scheduled to open in Minneapolis on October 10.